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CON LOS OJOS BIEN ABIERTOS:La Práctica Del Discernimiento En La Título original: EYES WIDE OPEN © Mariana Caplan Originally published in English by Sounds True www.soundstrue.com (U.S.A.) Spanish edition by arrangement with BookBank Literary Agency, Madrid © de la edición en castellano: 2010 by Editorial Kairós, S.A. www.editorialkairos.com © de la traducción del inglés: David González Raga Revisión: Carol Isern Primera edición: Noviembre 2010 Primera edición digital: Noviembre 2010 ISBN: 978-84-245-760-7 ISBN epub: 978-84-245-798-0 Composición: Converbooks.com Todos los derechos reservados. Cualquier forma de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública o transformación de esta obra solo puede ser realizada con la autorización de sus titulares, salvo excepción prevista por la ley. Diríjase a CEDRO (Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos, www.cedro.org) si necesita algún fragmento de esta obra. 2 Sumario Dedicatoria Prólogo Agradecimientos Introducción 1. ¿Qué es, de hecho, la espiritualidad? 2. Las enfermedades de transmisión espiritual 3. La postura de la mente 4. La psicología del ego 5. El materialismo espiritual y el bypass espiritual 6. La crisis curativa 7. El principio tántrico 8. el secreto de Pandora: desmitificar la sombra 9. El cuerpo como árbol de la bodhi 10. La unión entre la psicología y la espiritualidad 11. La cuestión del maestro 12. Om mani padme... ¡madura! Notas Glosario Bibliografía 3 Dedico este libro a mi maestro Lee Lozowick, que tantas cosas me enseñó sobre el discernimiento espiritual, a mis padres Herbert y Mollie Caplan, que me dieron el don de la vida y a mis lectores, que me proporcionan la razón para escribir. Lo importante no es tanto llegar como viajar bien. EL BUDDHA 4 PRÓLOGO 5 Son muchas actualmente las personas que, por primera vez en la historia, tiene acceso a las enseñanzas y prácticas espirituales a las que, en el pasado, sólo podían acceder unos cuantos elegidos, como los eremitas, los monjes y los santos. Y ésta es una extraordinaria oportunidad para que, sin necesidad de abandonar su vida normal y corriente, muchas personas despierten a su verdadera naturaleza. Pero esa posibilidad abre también las puertas a un amplio elenco de malentendidos, escollos, distorsiones y errores, que Mariana Caplan se ocupa, en este libro, de clasificar e investigar inteligentemente. Es por ello muy probable que esta guía, orientada hacia el desarrollo del discernimiento, uno de los ingredientes fundamentales de cualquier espiritualidad auténticamente encarnada, sirva positivamente a los lectores interesados en ejercitar y vivir el tipo de espiritualidad integral por el que ella aboga. Pero el camino del desarrollo espiritual no es, ni aún en las mejores circunstancias, tan directo como, a primera vista, parece. Y ello se debe a multitud de razones, una de las cuales es que el discernimiento nos permite acceder a un orden de verdad más elevado que, en ocasiones, tiene muy poco que ver con nuestra forma habitual de pensar y percibir. Se trata de dos niveles diferentes de la realidad a los que el budismo denomina “verdad absoluta” y “verdad relativa”. Ciertas comprensiones derivadas del nivel absoluto –como la de que “nada es real”, “abandona tu mente”, “el bien y el mal no son más que meras ilusiones” o “abandona el ego y entrégate”, por ejemplo– pueden convertirse, cuando se aplican de manera indiscriminada o imprecisa, en instrumentos del autoengaño que acaban generando multitud de problemas. Encontrar a un maestro, una enseñanza o una práctica espiritual puede abrir nuestro cofre interno del tesoro como sucede, por ejemplo, cuando nos enamoramos. En tales casos, pensamos: «Esto es el amor. Finalmente lo he encontrado». Pero tales conclusiones no son sino meros vislumbres de una dimensión del amor mucho más amplia y profunda cuya plena actualización nos obliga a experimentar una profunda transformación interior. Del mismo modo que el enamoramiento difícilmente nos capacita para enfrentarnos adecuadamente a los retos que acompañan a una relación estable o al matrimonio, existe una gran diferencia entre los primeros atisbos de las verdades espirituales y el auténtico logro espiritual. Este último nos obliga a ir más allá de nuestros miedos y resistencias y emprender un auténtico proceso de desarrollo espiritual. Y ello implica la eliminación de todos los obstáculos, es decir, la curación de todas las heridas, defensas, pretensiones, exigencias, filtraciones, adiciones y negaciones que, desde hace mucho tiempo, nos acompañan. Pero existe, no obstante, en el Occidente actual, una visión de la espiritualidad que promete, a cambio de muy poco esfuerzo, el acceso inmediato a nuestra propia esencia. Esta visión predica un absolutismo unilateral, a menudo en nombre del Advaita Vedanta, según el cual basta con despertar, en este mismo instante, a nuestra naturaleza divina, para que todo nos sea revelado. Esta es, ciertamente, una promesa muy atractiva para una 6 cultura, como la nuestra, orientada hacia los resultados inmediatos y en la que nadie quiere oír hablar de lo difícil, lento y exigente que es, en realidad, el camino espiritual. «¡No, olvídate de esas antiguas prácticas espirituales!» –dicen los neovedantinos, para los que la práctica no es necesaria. Es más, la práctica supone, para muchos de ellos, un obstáculo que no hace sino postergar el despertar.«¿No es cierto acaso que, cuando practicas –dicen– lo haces con la intención de llegar a algún lugar? ¿Por qué no te ahorras todo eso y despiertas ahora mismo? ¡Ya está aquí! ¡Olvídate de la práctica! ¡Sé!» Pero esta visión –común, por otra parte, a muchos de los problemas que nos asedian a lo largo del camino– no deja de basarse en cierta verdad. Es muy cierto que, en cualquier momento, podemos reconocer nuestra naturaleza última, algo que también resulta más sencillo cuando sabes lo que estás buscando y cómo relajarte. Pero no lo es menos que ese abordaje no es ningún camino espiritual, porque se desentiende por completo del orden de la realidad ligado a las complejidades relativas del karma, el condicionamiento, las pautas profundamente asentadas, las identidades inconscientes, las heridas psicológicas e incurre, en consecuencia, en todo tipo de autoengaños. Una fórmula tan simplista como la sencilla exhortación vedantina que afirma “relájate y sé” es como decir “ama y ya verás lo rápido que desaparecen los problemas de relación”. Es cierto que, desde una perspectiva última, el viaje espiritual jamás debería emprenderse porque, en esencia, ya somos perfectos. Pero, en el nivel de lo relativo, es decir, en nivel en el que estamos identificados inconscientemente con todo tipo de demonios, espíritus y tiranos ocultos, sin embargo, las prácticas del camino sirven para algo más que para revelarnos nuestra auténtica naturaleza. También han sido diseñadas para ayudarnos a superar los obstáculos internos que nos impiden el acceso a la verdad, el amor y la sabiduría. (Y, para corregir esos obstáculos, como he señalado en la mayor parte de mis escritos, el trabajo psicológico desempeña un papel muy importante y hasta diría que indispensable, para el desarrollo espiritual.) ¿Cuál es, pues, el mejor modo de desarrollar el discernimiento necesario para sortear adecuadamente las complejidades de las verdades absoluta y relativa y dejar de confundir lo que debemos cultivar con lo que debemos erradicar del camino espiritual? Según las tradiciones orientales, la naturaleza esencial de la conciencia es como un espejo cósmico que refleja, al tiempo que revela, la totalidad de los fenómenos – verdaderos y falsos, reales e irreales, claros y confusos–, sin identificarse con unos ni rechazar los otros. Esa conciencia omniabarcadora y omniinclusiva pudiera parecer, a primera vista, opuesta al discernimiento, pero no parece ser eso lo que dice Padmasambhava, padre del budismo tibetano, cuando pronuncia sus famosas palabras, según las cuales, «mi mente es tan inmensa como el cielo y mi atención a los detalles tan diminuta como un grano de arena». Según Padmasambhava, la inmensa mente de la conciencia abierta, que da la bienvenida y posibilita todo el despliegue de nuestra experiencia, es el fundamento también de la discriminación necesaria para considerar las situaciones relativas de nuestra vida. Porque sólo admitiendo y separando la totalidad de lo que, en nuestro interior, es real de lo que es irreal, podremos discernir lo que debemos cultivar de lo que debemos erradicar. Y es que, en este sentido, la sabiduría 7 discriminativa resulta tan indispensable para el desarrollo espiritual como la conciencia sin elección. Lo que nos permite abrir y expandir la mente condicionada sin dejar de afilar entretanto la espada de la discriminación es una práctica meditativa que nos ayude a entrar profundamente en la naturaleza y en el proceso de nuestra experiencia continua. Y también es sumamente útil contar con el apoyo de una enseñanza verdadera, un auténtico maestro y un linaje de práctica que haya demostrado su eficacia lo largo de muchas generaciones. Un libro como éste puede representar, hasta entonces, un comienzo que nos ayude a reconocer y eludir algunas de las distorsiones y malentendidos que conducen a las salidas en falso, recovecos inútiles, callejones sin salida y terrenos baldíos que, con tanta frecuencia, salpican el camino espiritual. JOHN WELWOOD Mill Valley (California) 8 AGRADECIMIENTOS 9 Quisiera dar las gracias a las muchas personas que me han alentado y apoyado para la puesta en marcha de este proyecto. En primer lugar y por encima de todo estoy especialmente agradecida a mi “ángel”, mi editora personal y amiga Nancy Lewis, que tan generosamente me ha brindado su amor, su atención y su discernimiento, apoyándome durante muchos años y ayudándome a dar a luz este libro. Muchos han sido los maestros, mentores y amigos espirituales cuya guía y contribución, tanto directa como indirecta, ha resultado imprescindible para la elaboración de este libro. Entre ellos quiero destacar a mi maestro, Lee Lozowick, de la tradición baúl occidental, el jeque sufí Llevellyn Vaughan-Lee y John Welwood, Arnaud Desjardins, Jorge Ferrer y Gilles Farcet.
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